~Luci~

I notice I wasn't listed, but I frankly don't care. I know the deal. The real good fighters get in, cause of their mad skills, the smart, resourceful ones get in, but the youngest, smallest one, just a common thief, isn't trusted. I stretch out in a corner and fall asleep.     

Addie ~

I'm grateful for at least some sense of security. I wasn't entirely sure what to think of these girls. Some acted just as untrusting as I felt. Some seemed totally at ease or indifferent to us being here. The youngest one, Luci, caught me attention. She didn't speak much, but gave the air of being one to hold her own. I was curious as to how she had come to be in with this ragtag bunch, and her backstory.

I drifted off into a something of a light sleep, somewhere between deep sleep and being awake. Between my ever raging thoughts and tidbits of sounds around me, dreams formed just behind my eyelids, so vivid and realistic feeling, I felt like fear was choking me. Zombies formed before me, rising out of the dirt. They were the same kind we'd seen today. Not your typical, funny ones, like in a video game, but truly horrific rotting humanoids. Their skin was greyish-green, hanging off their mold spotted bones. Their faces were deformed and the skin was stretched thinly across the frame of sunken skulls. Where their eyes shoudl have been was nothing but black pits. They spread out their hands, reaching for their victims like in the movies, except dried blood stained their fingers. I wanted to scream. In the dream they came close enough now that I could smell their breath, which heavily carried the scent of rotting meat. 

This all was mixed into different scenes, all from memories. The main was the accident. Enough of me was awake and functioning to tell me none of this was real, but at the same I couldn't shake the fear. Zombies were real. And we were running for our lives.

I silently jerked awake. Glancing over, I saw Arista sitting guard. I rise and move over to her.

"My shift, you rest," I whisper to her. She nods without a word, moves over, and lies down. Within a few moments, she's asleep.

Sitting here in the darkness is more unnerving than I thought it would be. I prayed the rest of the night would pass without incident.

Zain~

I lie, my eyes wide open. I've been in more life-threatening situations, I think to myself. I shut my eyes for a moment, thoughts form in my head, turning into dreams. 

Her screams echo in my ears, the blood-covered knife in my chest. I see an axe in her back; she's dead, I'm barely living, I stagger to the door-

I wake up, I had been sleeping for only half an hour! I stand up, I slowly walk to Addie.

"Psssssst, Add!"

"Zain? Is it your turn already?"

"No."

"Can't sleep?"

"Nope. Mind if I keep you company?"

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Sorry it's so short. I need to go! 

(I'm changing tenses.)

~Luci~ 

I wake up from a dream about Mom. She'd be in a long, dark tunnel with torchs every two or three feet. I ran towards her, and she opened her arms wide, but whenever I almost reached her she'd disappear, reappearing five or six torchs down. Finally I caught her before she disappeared, but something strange was happening to her. Her hair swished around her face and when it pulled back her eyes were empty, a wide black void. Her skin turned a sickly green, her arms around me cold, lifeless but for the blood pumping through them. Her amrs tightened around me, her mouth opening, revealing blackened teeth. She drooled, pulling me closer . . . 

I'm drenched in sweat and I feel like I can never sleep again. My heart pounds a mile a minute and I breathe fast and shallow as I sit up. 

Danie is still fast asleep, but I can see Addie and Zain sitting just outside, talking softly. I consider joining them, but they're good friends and it'd be a bit intrusive to do so, so I lie back down, trying to calm down. 

I wake up. It's still night. I rub my eyes, looking around.

The world is shivering again. (This means she's having another hallucination.) It's so wonderful and colorful! Look, a rainbow!

I see Arista get up, and walk outside. I should join her! She seems to like rainbows too.

A snuggly teddy bear walks toward Arista. No! I want to hug it instead! I push Arista away and jump onto the bear. Ouch! Something scratched me.

No! This teddy is evil! I rip out its stuffing (Er... Um... Danie. Those are guts.) and kill it.

The world shivers out again. Aw... It's so dark now. Why are my hands too gloopy? I look at them and shrugg. Guts. 'Nother hallucination. Arista looks at me like I had just saved her life... Maybe I did? 

Addie ~

The following day dawned grey with storm clouds blocking out the sun. Rain came down lightly but steadily. I woke up from a half sleep. Zain and I had fallen into a state in between wake and sleep, our senses still alert but enough to rest ourselves somewhat. Apparently some sort of commotion happened for Danie and Arista, though neither one talked about it.

No one said much of anything as we cleared up our few belongings. 

"So... what are we going to do?" Arista asked, glancing at everyone. "Is everyone sticking together, or..."

Zain and I glanced at each other, then shrugged.

"We might as well stick with you guys. We don't have anywhere really to go, no one waiting for us," Zain said.

I glanced at Bluebird.

"Sure," was all she said, when she noticed me looking at her.

"Alright then I guess we're a team," I said, cracking a small smile.

"Well what should do we then?" Arista asked.

"Check out the city," Luci said simply. "See how everyone else has fared. See what left."

"Sounds reasonable," I commented. 

"Sounds like a plan then," Dannie said with a grin.

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So this is just to form some establishment, and give some direction. Do whatever.

Tamar~

Everyone packs up. I sling my backpack over my shoulder. It looks like everyone else packed way lighter than I did -- the most they have is a messenger bag, and that's Addie. Luci's got almost nothing except her dagger and the phone in her pocket.

"I don't really know Torren, so you guys go ahead." I step aside as Danie mounts her bike and rides ahead, leading us out. Addie jogs up to her and pulls ahead, Zain beside her as always. I guess those two are a unit. Bluebird walks in the middle, sliding her fingers up and down her arrow shaft. She still seems nervous. I fall into line beside Luci.

"I'm still freaked about this whole 'zombies' thing," I admit. "You seem... so in charge."

Luci looks like I just called her a unicorn. "In charge? I'm nine. You're... what, 3, 4 years older?"

"I'm 13," I tell her. "But I don't know, I'm still looking to you as the leader. Even with the new girls."

Luci blinks her pale blue eyes. "I'm definitely not the leader type. I'd rather be sitting by my fire thinking than telling other people what to do." She turns away. I guess she really is a little antisocial.

Addie leads us down a side street. There are huge, tall office buildings on either side, but the glass of the windows is broken and big enough for one of us to climb through.

"C'mon," she beckons. It's dark inside, so I dig out a flashlight from my bag and toss it to her. She catches it easily, uses its handle to knock away some of the last shards still hanging from the frame, and leads us into the old building.  

Tamar~

Danie charges over to a nearby hovercar and attacks it.

"Danie? DANIE!" I run over and grab her by the shoulders. She looks woozy, like she did when she was 'seeing the unicorns'.

I cock my head at my backpack, tossed on the ground. Luci gets what I mean, and she digs into the pocket and takes out the green-and-white pill. I grind it between my fingers and drop the dust into Danie's mouth. 

"This is getting serious," I comment.  

THIS MUST NOT DIEEEE.

I have a brain freeze. I can't think of anything.